China launches largest military drills off Taiwan in 8 months with live-fire exercises caught on camera

China fired rockets into waters adjacent Taiwan during large-scale live-fire drills Tuesday, staging its biggest subject encirclement of the land successful 8 months portion informing "separatist" forces and extracurricular powers.

A video released by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command showed forces firing rockets into waters northbound of Taiwan and bomber craft taking disconnected astatine nighttime arsenic portion of the encirclement.

The footage was released connected the 2nd time of the large-scale workout "Justice Mission 2025."

China launched the workout Monday, surrounding Taiwan with warships, craft and live-fire drills arsenic tensions roseate pursuing a grounds U.S. arms merchantability to Taipei.

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China launched rockets adjacent Taiwan during monolithic live-fire drills, surrounding the land with warships, craft and subject unit arsenic tensions rise. (PLA Eastern Theater Command via Reuters)

"Justice Mission 2025" includes coordinated deployments of crushed forces, naval vessels, combatant jets, drones and artillery crossed 7 maritime zones encircling Taiwan.

Tuesday’s drills included long-range live-fire exercises successful waters northbound of Taiwan, PLA Eastern Theater Command spokesperson Li Xi said, according to state-run Xinhua News. Li said the drills achieved their intended results.

Other drills included assaults connected maritime targets and anti-air and anti-submarine operations. Destroyers, frigates, combatant jets and bombers besides carried retired simulated strikes connected maritime targets.

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China launched rockets adjacent Taiwan during monolithic live-fire drills, surrounding the land with warships, craft and subject unit arsenic tensions rise. (PLA Eastern Theater Command via Reuters)

Rockets fired by Chinese forces landed wrong Taiwan’s 24-nautical-mile line, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said.

Taiwanese person William Lai Ching-te said Tuesday that Beijing "has continued to escalate subject hostility successful the region, which is not the behaviour of a liable satellite power," according to Focus Taiwan. He added that "Taiwan volition not provoke a confrontation, nor question struggle with China."

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said connected X that 130 PLA aircraft, 14 naval vessels and 8 authoritative ships were operating astir the land arsenic of 6 a.m. section time.

"Ninety of the 130 sorties crossed the median enactment and entered Taiwan’s northern, central, southwestern and eastbound aerial defence recognition zone," the connection said. "We monitored the concern and responded."

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China launched rockets adjacent Taiwan during monolithic live-fire drills, surrounding the land with warships, craft and subject unit arsenic tensions rise. (PLA Eastern Theater Command via Reuters)

The PLA said connected X that a Chinese subject drone captured aerial footage of Taipei 101, which Taiwan’s Defense Ministry described arsenic a emblematic illustration of intelligence warfare. "So close, truthful beautiful, spell to Taipei astatine immoderate time," the PLA said successful the post.

President Donald Trump said Monday that Chinese President Xi Jinping did not pass him of the drills, adding that the exercises did not interest him.

As the drills unfolded, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Chinese subject craft and naval vessels were operating adjacent the island, with immoderate engaging successful adjacent stand-offs adjacent Taiwan’s contiguous zone, astir 24 nautical miles from shore.

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Military exercises mobilize the Chinese PLA Navy, Army, Air Force and the Chinese Coast Guards, which are deemed arsenic a punishment to Taiwan's telephone for independence. (Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"Conducting live-fire exercises astir the Taiwan Strait would not lone represent subject unit connected us, but could besides airs broader risks to the planetary assemblage and neighboring countries," said Hsieh Jih-sheng, Taiwan’s lawman main of the wide unit for intelligence.

Taiwan placed its subject connected precocious alert and said it was prepared to behaviour rapid-response exercises if the drills escalated. The ministry released video highlighting its ain capabilities, including U.S.-made HIMARS systems, portion the seashore defender deployed ample patrol ships to show Chinese vessels adjacent its waters.

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China claims Taiwan arsenic its territory and has not ruled retired utilizing unit to bring the land nether its control. Taiwan rejects that claim, maintaining that lone its radical tin determine the island’s future.

Fox News Digital’s Morgan Phillips and Reuters contributed to this report.